Guitarist Galina Vale (Vernigora)  was born  in the Ukraine and comes from a family of musicians.
She began studying the guitar and made her first public appearance on state television at the age of eight, from twelve she was performing major guitar concertos with the Kharkov Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.  From 1991 to 1995 she studied at the Moscow Gnesiny Music College while also employed  as a principal guitarist with the Kharkov State Philharmonia from 1986 until 1997.
    Galina has won prizes at international guitar and  music  competitions in  Poland, Italy, Hungary, Spain, the United Kingdom, and  has  performed over  2000  concerts  across West and Eastern  Europe .
    In  1996  the  British  Ambassador and  High Commissioner to Kenya invited her to Africa for a concert tour and television appearances.
     Her recitals have included very technically demanding works, such as the arrangement by Japanese virtuoso guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita of  "The Bogatyr Gate of Kiev" (from "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Mussorgsky), considered "impossible for guitar" (Goniezc Pomorsky) alongside her own arrangements of works like Rachmaninov's   "Prelude no.5 in G-minor" and "Hungarian Dance no.5" by Brahms…
     Her repertoire has ranged from 'orthodox' classical guitar (Sor, Mertz, Tarrega, Villa-Lobos), music from the renaissance and baroque (Galilei, Bach, Dowland, Scarlatti) through arrangements of  classical instrumental,orchestral works and opera (Liszt, Paganini, Sarasate, de Falla, Gimenez, Bizet, Rossini...) the modern guitar (Walton, Dyens, Rak...) to flamenco (Escudero, Sabicas, Peña...) and arrangements of South American and East European folk music (Cardoso, Ramirez, Shevchenko...). Her interpretation of  pieces by the famous guitarist-composer  Štepan Rák inspired his praise before a huge audience at the 1987 Esztergom International Guitar Festival (Hungary)...
       "finally I have found  a guitarist who can perform my music!"

She has also starred in three music films produced by Ukrainian State Television:

"Portrait with guitar" (1987)
"Strings and Sails"     (1991)
"Spirit of Spain"         (1997)

Her  first CD "The Legend" was released  in 1996 (under her maiden name Galina Vernigora) with the support   of  Gendai Guitar Foundation of Japan  and Masaru Kohno.
It featured on US  FM radio in the network programme edition of  "Great Women Guitarists" produced by 'Classical Guitar Alive' in 1997 and later  with the Maltese National Radio on the programme "Cantabile".
   
Galina now lives in England and continues with her career as a concert performer .
Since moving to the U.K. she has performed at major festivals incl. Eurowirral International Guitar Festival,  Ripon Music Festival, "Hola Mundo" and  venues incl. Royal Festival Hall, Purcell Room, Kensington Roof Gardens, Leighton House and Bridgewater Hall. She has also worked with the Instituto Cervantes in Manchester and London under Director  Salvador Estebanez Eraso performing Spanish guitar music programmes for the Open University, British Council and other events .